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A. E. WHITM'ORE. Breech Loading Fire Arm.4

No.l 288,821. Patented March 15,188'.

NESSES| UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.Y

ANDREW EWVHITMORE, .PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H. DAVENPORT, FSME4 Basson-,LOADING FlRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,821, dated March, 15, 1881.

Application iiled September 1o, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that 1, ANDREW E. WHITMORE, of Providence, in the vState of Rhode Island, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part. ofthe same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

' o Figure 1 is a section of the breech, showing the extractor-lever. Fig. 2 is a section of same, with the barrel tipped to receive a new car tridge.-

Sis a cross-section on line w x;

rIhe object-of my invention is to provide a device superior to those now in use for expelling` the old shell as the barrel is tipped to receive a new cartridge; and it consists in the mechanism hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figs. l and 2, A is the lockframe; B, the barrel; U, the hammer; D, the trigger; E, the cartridgeextractor; F, the lockingbolt, which works in horizontal grooves upon the inside of the frame A, to engage the lugs G G and secure the barrel. H is a thumblever for \\'ithdrawing the locking'bolt F, and connected therewith Vby suitable mechanism. I is a lever for operating the extractor, and is constructed with two arms at right angles to cach other.

The extractor E is attached to a rod, K,

which extends forward, and is operated upon by the upper arm of thelever I. Back of this/ upper arm is a presser-rod, IWI, which bearj against the arm of the lever. It is provide with a tension-spring, S, which tends always to keep it pressed against the arm of the leve but will yield readily when necessary. This presser-rod and spring insures the proper tion of the lever I, and forces it to its norm l position whenever the opposing force ,is r moved. This action prevents the lower arm of the lever I from getting into the wrong` relative position to the locking-bolt F. f s

- Having n ow described the several parts of my invention, I will proceed to describe its operation, commencing with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 1.

After the discharge of the piece thelocking bolt F, which locks the barrel, is withdrawn from the lugs Gr G b v the action of the hand upon the lever H. The travel of the loclkingbolt is, however, limited to the distance, required to clear the lugs G G', so that when the barrel is tipped to receive a new cartridge, as shown in Fig. 2, one arm of the lever Iwill '"coim'eirrcontect with the lockiug-boltF, which' will result in depressing such arm. Such depression carries the other arm of the lever I toward the breech, at the same time sliding horizontally the rod K, and moving outward the extractor E, which is' attached thereto. The extractor E,in its outward movement., comes in contact with the extended rim of the shell and remo'ves it from the breech. AneW cartridge is now placed vin the breech, and forced inwith the hand until the rim thereof rests in the depression L of the extractor E,

n when the barrel is brought back to its original position, as shown in Fig. l. During the h'onieward movement of the barrel' the'extrac'tonE and the cartridge come in contact with the f frame A and are forced inward, as shown 1n What I claim as my invention, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihc combination of the lever I, having thc two arms, with the locking-bolt E, arm K, provided with extractor E, an'd presser-rod M, provided with spring S, constructed as shown, and for the purposesetmforth.

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